With the White House seemingly going to a communications model of deep background, closed press, invitation-only off-the-record briefings, what’s a White House correspondent to do with his spare time? CBS News’ Mark Knoller has turned his attention to the skies, where an asteroid known as 1998 QE2 is today passing within 3.6 million miles of earth. He also found an opening to troll competitor CNN.

Thanks @CNN for the countdown clock of an asteroid missing Earth. Very helpful.